Learn about volunteer opportunities for Family Promise

Family Promise provides shelter, meals, and comprehensive support services to families without homes.

Currently, more than 200 people volunteer thousands of hours to help the nonprofit in its mission to find homeless families housing and stability.

New and interested volunteers have an opportunity to learn more at a Feb. 17 orientation session.

Volunteering possibilities include: Cook and serve meals, help children with homework, do laundry, set up rooms, stay overnight (bed and linens provided).

Beyond providing lodging and meals, volunteers interact with the guests, treating them with respect and responding with compassion.

Like the families, volunteers rotate between several Great Falls churches that house the families for a week at a time. Guests are typically served in the evenings, including overnight and weekends. Volunteer shifts are flexible and run from 2 to 12 hours.

Orientations are on the first Tuesday at 6 p.m. and on the third Saturday at 10 a.m. of each month at Central Christian Church.

Volunteers will help to take care of the basics so that parents can search for jobs and housing. To volunteer, contact Sharon at 866-0288 or sharon@familypromisegf.org.

Information about this and other volunteer opportunities is available at United Way of Cascade County’s free website, www.volunteergreatfalls.org.

Between the website and managing RSVP, United Way is now where all agencies that need volunteers can go and people of all ages who are interested in volunteering can look for opportunities.

Volunteers of all ages can search volunteer opportunities on the www.volunteergreatfalls.org website by their interests and availability and they can also call 727-3400 to learn about opportunities and organizations that need help.

Cascade County nonprofits are encouraged to register and post their volunteer opportunities on the site, whether they are a one-time event or an ongoing opportunity.